At Colette, an Art Exhibition and Beyoncé-Approved Headpieces

“I definitely didn’t take a ‘normal’ art path,” says the Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Amit Greenberg. Yes, his works have been displayed at institutions like the Whitney Museum of American Art and SFMOMA Artists Gallery — but his debut solo show, “This is a happy thought,” featuring a character called BLU, fills the floors of the Paris shop Colette. Greenberg and a series of collaborators cooked up backpacks, T-shirts and tomato sauce; he asked Laura Wass of WXYZ Jewelry to customize the brand’s caps and headbands, made from metal tubes coated with car paint and hand-woven on rubberized elastic cording. The “dream helmets,” as Greenberg dubbed them, are meant to transform the viewer into a real-life BLU, and include a dose of Beyoncé freshness — the musician wore an upside-down WXYZ visor as a crown in her “7/11″ music video, released late last year.

$200 – $750; “This is a happy thought” is in the store today through May 30 at Colette, 213 rue Saint-Honoré, Paris, 75001, colette.fr.